{"id":573881418,"date":"2011-03-23T22:42:10","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T03:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573881418"},"modified":"2011-03-30T17:22:28","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T22:22:28","slug":"stuff-and-things-for-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2011\/03\/23\/stuff-and-things-for-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuff and things for Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few people actually asked for this on Twitter &#8212; can you believe it? &#8212; and so I&#8217;ve compiled this list in <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/storify.com\/kennysmith\/\">Storify<\/a>. It is found elsewhere on the site, but that just isn&#8217;t good enough. Your requested material should be everywhere. It started on <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/kennysmith\">Twitter<\/a>, of course, but the biggest problem is that Twitter has a very temporary nature. Storify will, presumably, be more permanent. And I can edit it for later. So, then, here is the famous Twilight Twitter commentaries:<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/storify.com\/kennysmith\/the-twilight-archives2.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Yankee tells me the next movie is set to underwhelm everyone 17-years-and-older this fall. I&#8217;m sure she&#8217;ll go. If so, I&#8217;ll go along to make fun of the thing on Twitter (I do it for <em>you<\/em>, Internet) and then put it there.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m beginning to like Storify. It makes sense, though I wish it would do a few more things, which would also make sense given what it is trying to be. But that&#8217;s the nature of things. I&#8217;ll take my mile now, you charming little free service.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow ups<\/strong> to things mentioned recently: The New York Times has <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/theunderstatement.com\/post\/4019228737\/digital-subscription-prices-visualized-aka-the-new\">have no interest in competing for digital-only dollars<\/a>. Did I mention that in it&#8217;s present form the paywall is <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.niemanlab.org\/2011\/03\/that-was-quick-four-lines-of-code-is-all-it-takes-for-the-new-york-times-paywall-to-come-tumbling-down-2\/\">hardly daunting<\/a>? I get my Times from Twitter, so it is free to me under this odd scheme. Meanwhile, USA Today is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aejmc.com\/topics\/archives\/1921\">revamping<\/a>. There&#8217;s promise and trouble there, I&#8217;d think. Their online presence will be the best part of their recently unveiled strategies.<\/p>\n<p>About Libya. <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalpunch\/2011\/03\/president-obama-redefines-the-term-exit-strategy.html\">Scrambling<\/a>, <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/africaandindianocean\/libya\/8399609\/Libyan-air-strikes-Armed-Forces-minister-admits-there-is-no-exit-strategy.html\">stumbling<\/a> and <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1368693\/Libya-war-Germans-pull-forces-NATO-Libyan-coalition-falls-apart.html\">fumbling<\/a>. Oy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The story<\/strong> here is that a guy stills a laptop from a young computer whiz. The guy then apparently recorded this video of himself and the victim tracked it all down through the power of <strike>cheese<\/strike> technology.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"510\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8c8W1NDYf38?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8c8W1NDYf38?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"510\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>And finally, a guy I worked with in Little Rock years ago put this on Twitter today. Apparently that&#8217;s <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.swtimes.com\/news\/article_9a34d768-555a-11e0-9e2a-001cc4c03286.html\">his great-uncle cutting Elvis&#8217; hair<\/a>. He says his grandfather swept it up. No word, yet, on whether anyone stashed it for the eventual creation of e-bay.<\/p>\n<p>So, there, I have three degrees of separation from Elvis and my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/arkansassportswatch.com\/?page_id=89\">Grant Merrill<\/a> has a really cool family story he&#8217;s probably heard all of his life. And Elvis hair, lots of Elvis hair. He&#8217;s just waiting until his daughter goes off to college, and then he&#8217;ll sell it off for tuition money. Grant&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/rivervalleyleader.com\/content\/russellville-native-purchases-major-sports-magazine\">multimedia mogul<\/a> now. Very impressive.<\/p>\n<p>One day, when I need a loan, I&#8217;ll remind him of that time he crashed on my sofa.<\/p>\n<p>This got me looking for an aircheck from the late, great <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rollerfuneralhomes.com\/services.asp?page=odetail&#038;id=7553&#038;locid=17\">Ray Lincoln<\/a> who was simply one of the best people any of us ever worked with in radio. I only knew him at the end of his career when his health was failing, but his mind was razor sharp. In his prime he did a show where he performed two people, Ray and Ram, at once. And he did it well, I&#8217;ve heard snippets and the thing was amazing. Later I wrote a little copy for him and pitched to him as he did horse track picks. Lincoln was one of those guys who could do a lot of things well, and he was regarded as one of the best handicappers in the country. As was typical, he did that as a character, too. Sport Jackson was a no-nonsense personality and it was just inside the man. He was a method actor without a stage. <\/p>\n<p><a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\" http:\/\/www.todaysthv.com\/news\/article\/34185\/2\/Arkansas-Radio-Personality-Ray-Lincoln-Dies\">KTHV<\/a>, when Lincoln died a few years back, did the best obit piece you&#8217;ve ever read, mostly because the man was one of those people you could imagine has existed anyway:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In January of 2000, deteriorating health forced Lincoln to quit full-time radio. His condition would worsen until he was forced to enter a Dallas hospital in 2003. &#8220;They cut me open and did six bypasses. They were gonna do five and I found out if they do six, you get the cell phone and the Internet and the dish.&#8221; His condition would deteriorate until he was forced to enter a Dallas hospital in 2003. He suffered six strokes which left him incapacitated and he was in dire need of a heart transplant. Lincoln was kept alive by a machine called an l-Vad. Eventually though, his family was faced with a decision. Lincoln explained in 2005, &#8220;It was not looking good. So, we had decided on Thursday, come Sunday, we&#8217;ll just turn this machine off.&#8221; Suddenly, there was a donor heart available that was a match for Lincoln. &#8220;This kid, his name was Dwayne Compton, 26 years old. He was killed in an automobile accident December 11th and the next day, I got his heart,&#8221; Lincoln says. &#8220;And his heart is in my chest right now.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And they included quotes that probably are more in keeping with the character Ray Lincoln conveyed on air:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The radio business is a cruel and shallow money trench. A long, plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There\u2019s also a negative side.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do I get credit for using those words? Look at my contract. I get a 50 cent bonus for large polysyllabic words that are obscure and seldom used except for people who are erudite and urbane.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t know him especially well, but he was always a decent guy and a great talent. Sadly, there isn&#8217;t any audio of his to be found on the Internet. This is an oversight.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re going to Little Rock this weekend for a conference. I must resist the urge to try and remember stories to tell. I was only there for a year, after all. But I certainly met some characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few people actually asked for this on Twitter &#8212; can you believe it? &#8212; and so I&#8217;ve compiled this list in Storify. It is found elsewhere on the site, but that just isn&#8217;t good enough. Your requested material should be everywhere. 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